I am a mess, I cry all day, I feed all night.Hayley in The Originals
Quotes
Keeping an Eye Open
"New Orleans is a vicious place. Your enemies are everywhere, behind your back, before your eyes. You’ll need to remain vigilante against those who seek to destroy you, some of whom you may never see coming."Klaus Mikaelson in The Originals
Overcrowded
"Are we running a kennel now?"Klaus (Joseph Morgan) to Hayley in The Originals
Hey Dairy Queen! Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) to the Snow Queen (Elizabeth Mitchell)
Writers write what they can. The act of writing is a function that becomes effective only if it allows one to express one’s inner self. Italo Calvino, interviewed in the Paris Review in 1983. It’s Calvino’s birthday today! (via kickstarter)
Trust & Value
Trust, is the only currency with any value. Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison - Sleepy Hollow S2E03)
You are free to write about anything—whatever you find necessary to tell your story. You are free to pick material that you are drawn to, remembering that you may be drawn to what is strange or frankly appalling. Do not resist that appeal, no matter how disgraceful or unreasonable it may look. In a talk … Continue reading
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.Maya Angelou
Find Your Beach
There’s a reason so many writers once lived here, beyond the convenient laundromats and the take-out food, the libraries and cafés. We have always worked off the energy generated by this town, the money-making and tower-building as much as the street art and underground cultures. Zadie Smith on Manhattan, Find Your Beach by Zadie Smith | … Continue reading Find Your Beach
The challenge for anybody working with words is entirely the challenge of language. It’s a problem that language for us is the speech of the everyday. It’s our shopping list, our laundry list as well as our poetic expression. No other art form suffers from this so particularly. When you give people a book, or … Continue reading
Worn Out Spines 